Horizon avoidance in spherically-symmetric collapse

Understand

We study collapse of evaporating spherically-symmetric thin dust shells and dust balls assuming that quantum effects are encapsulated in a spherically-symmetric metric that satisfied mild regularity conditions.

• The evaporation may accelerate collapse, but for a generic metric the Schwarzschild radius is not crossed.
• Instead the shell (or the layer in the ball of dust) is always at a certain sub-Planckian distance from it.